{"id":1968,"date":"2021-10-21T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2021-10-21T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:35:08","slug":"risk-assessments-required-to-apply-for-nsercs-alliance-grants-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/risk-assessments-required-to-apply-for-nsercs-alliance-grants-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk Assessments Required to Apply for NSERC\u2019s Alliance Grants Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers applying for funding under the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council\u2019s Alliance Grants program will now have to complete a security risk assessment as part of their application if the work involves a private sector partner, the federal government announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, it said NSERC will conduct the risk assessments on a case-by-case basis in consultation with national security agencies and federal departments. Projects that have identified risks must also include mitigation measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProjects that are deemed high risk, or where the risk cannot be mitigated, will not be funded,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne, minister of innovation, science and industry.<\/p>\n<p>The risk assessments are part of a package of new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.gc.ca\/eic\/site\/063.nsf\/eng\/h_98256.html\">national security guidelines for research partnerships<\/a>\u00a0the government developed in consultation with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic.gc.ca\/eic\/site\/063.nsf\/eng\/h_98090.html\">Government of Canada-Universities Working Group<\/a>\u00a0to protect Canadian research and intellectual property against foreign interference, espionage and theft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityaffairs.ca\/news\/news-article\/risk-assessments-required-to-apply-for-nsercs-alliance-grants-program-federal-government-announces\/?utm_source=University+Affairs+e-newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=4c808089e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_07_14&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_314bc2ee29-4c808089e6-425260181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers applying for funding under the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council\u2019s Alliance Grants program will now have to complete a security risk assessment as part of their application if the work involves a private sector partner, the federal government announced Monday. In a news release, it said NSERC will conduct the risk assessments on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,119,115,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-funding-agency-news","category-research-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}